Best store bought/grocery store guacamole?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whole Foods is the only one I would spend money on, but making your own guac is stupid simple so buying premade it truly an emergency only situation. I will, however, pay crazy amounts for WF Pico bc chopping all of the tomatoes, onions, etc etc is time consuming as heck.

The hardest part for me is finding the perfectly ripe avocados. I'm in awe of the people who have avocado toast every day and I think they must live in CA. Here, I'm victim to what the store carries, and the degree of ripeness. Every system I try calibrated to the phases of the moon and with precise apple alarms set, with backups of backups always ends up with me throwing away overripe ones or cutting into ones that never ripen.

That said, I buy the wegman's only avocado or similar in the produce section and then fancy it up with fresh cilantro, tomatoes, lime juice, etc. No onions for me.

Store them in the fridge

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Buy now and freeze, the price will double or triple in 2.5 weeks

You can freeze pre-made guac?!

[Anonymous]

Roots Market (Olney) has a great guac.

[Anonymous]

Costco

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whole Foods is the only one I would spend money on, but making your own guac is stupid simple so buying premade it truly an emergency only situation. I will, however, pay crazy amounts for WF Pico bc chopping all of the tomatoes, onions, etc etc is time consuming as heck.

The hardest part for me is finding the perfectly ripe avocados. I'm in awe of the people who have avocado toast every day and I think they must live in CA. Here, I'm victim to what the store carries, and the degree of ripeness. Every system I try calibrated to the phases of the moon and with precise apple alarms set, with backups of backups always ends up with me throwing away overripe ones or cutting into ones that never ripen.

That said, I buy the wegman's only avocado or similar in the produce section and then fancy it up with fresh cilantro, tomatoes, lime juice, etc. No onions for me.

Store them in the fridge

This. Purchase when hard. Leave out until a little soft. Move to fridge.

[Anonymous]

Whole Foods' guac is remarkably good, the freshly-made stuff they sell in the produce section. I've tried Wegman's recently and don't like it as much; it's somehow spicier but less tasty and with less good texture.

[Anonymous]

Balducci's has good in-house pico.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whole Foods is the only one I would spend money on, but making your own guac is stupid simple so buying premade it truly an emergency only situation. I will, however, pay crazy amounts for WF Pico bc chopping all of the tomatoes, onions, etc etc is time consuming as heck.

The hardest part for me is finding the perfectly ripe avocados. I'm in awe of the people who have avocado toast every day and I think they must live in CA. Here, I'm victim to what the store carries, and the degree of ripeness. Every system I try calibrated to the phases of the moon and with precise apple alarms set, with backups of backups always ends up with me throwing away overripe ones or cutting into ones that never ripen.

That said, I buy the wegman's only avocado or similar in the produce section and then fancy it up with fresh cilantro, tomatoes, lime juice, etc. No onions for me.

Store them in the fridge

This. Purchase when hard. Leave out until a little soft. Move to fridge.

Yes this advice changed my life. I only heard this a few years ago. They last a long time in the fridge.

[Anonymous]

Whole Foods spicy

[Anonymous]

They all turn gray too fast. Make your own...so easy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whole Foods is the only one I would spend money on, but making your own guac is stupid simple so buying premade it truly an emergency only situation. I will, however, pay crazy amounts for WF Pico bc chopping all of the tomatoes, onions, etc etc is time consuming as heck.

The hardest part for me is finding the perfectly ripe avocados. I'm in awe of the people who have avocado toast every day and I think they must live in CA. Here, I'm victim to what the store carries, and the degree of ripeness. Every system I try calibrated to the phases of the moon and with precise apple alarms set, with backups of backups always ends up with me throwing away overripe ones or cutting into ones that never ripen.

That said, I buy the wegman's only avocado or similar in the produce section and then fancy it up with fresh cilantro, tomatoes, lime juice, etc. No onions for me.

Store them in the fridge

This. Purchase when hard. Leave out until a little soft. Move to fridge.

Yes this advice changed my life. I only heard this a few years ago. They last a long time in the fridge.

Believe me, fridge rotation is part of my highly calibrated (and doomed) system.

[Anonymous]

Safeway and Whole Foods are similar. Whole Foods is double the cost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whole Foods is the only one I would spend money on, but making your own guac is stupid simple so buying premade it truly an emergency only situation. I will, however, pay crazy amounts for WF Pico bc chopping all of the tomatoes, onions, etc etc is time consuming as heck.

The hardest part for me is finding the perfectly ripe avocados. I'm in awe of the people who have avocado toast every day and I think they must live in CA. Here, I'm victim to what the store carries, and the degree of ripeness. Every system I try calibrated to the phases of the moon and with precise apple alarms set, with backups of backups always ends up with me throwing away overripe ones or cutting into ones that never ripen.

That said, I buy the wegman's only avocado or similar in the produce section and then fancy it up with fresh cilantro, tomatoes, lime juice, etc. No onions for me.

Agree with this. The biggest challenge is finding ripe avocados or avos that will be ripe within a day or so. Often in Giant all of the avos are rock rock hard, with a few brown and mushy thrown in. WF used to reliably have good ones, but since their takeover by Amazon, the stock isn’t as good. I buy in-house made guac from WF when a craving strikes and I can’t find good avocados.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whole Foods is the only one I would spend money on, but making your own guac is stupid simple so buying premade it truly an emergency only situation. I will, however, pay crazy amounts for WF Pico bc chopping all of the tomatoes, onions, etc etc is time consuming as heck.

I don't find it very time consuming, and I make it when I make guacamole because a few scoops of pico + the "juice" at the bottom + extra lime and cilantro and salt is how I make guacamole!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whole Foods is the only one I would spend money on, but making your own guac is stupid simple so buying premade it truly an emergency only situation. I will, however, pay crazy amounts for WF Pico bc chopping all of the tomatoes, onions, etc etc is time consuming as heck.

THIS! I miss the pico so much. I could start a whole thread on things that WF doesn't sell anymore post-Amazon. I bet the guac will be the next to go.